Droid Engineer Archive

It would make sense to me to put better battle-droids within the existing DE tree, but require "weapon pods" or a "battle computer" that need to be made by a Weaponsmith.

I agree with IsaacPalinander's theory,

I may add, if an Elite-Elite (I hate that redundant description) DE profesion may be making personal vehicles, who's gonna make the starships in the future space expansion? hmmmm???

The devs have said the space expansion will have its own pool of skill points.

Starship engineers will proby need parts from DEs, Architects, Weapon smiths, Vehical Mechanics.. but thats really trying to extrapolate from an extrpolation.. i hate doing it.

Valcyn,

I clearly said land vehicles, NOT space vehicles. I'm sure that space vehicle construction will be a whole other ball game..

Well vehicles will prolly be an offshoot class of two specific elites, its been stated that they may HAVE to give extra skill points useable only by elite classes.

As for ships, i could see them being made by products of every elite profession dealing with electronics (armorsmith, weaponsmith, architect, de) Armor - MK9's, Weapons - FWG12's, Architect -Ship Bodies, DE - Computers.

The process of actually constructing them will either be in a super elite class, or possibly done like the disks, you just assemble them if you get all the peices.

Just my .02

heh valcyn is my server not name

And i wasn't responing to you I was spongind to the one that agreed to me..

Oops... my bad. You were addressing PureS.

Anyway, Starship construction will definitely be a cooperative effort. I just don't see any one or 2 craftsmen being able to throwa starship together. And if a PA takes so many resources, I shudder to think what a starship will take.....

that came out crappy... Long day.. i ment to say i responding to the one that agreed with you, PureS

My speculation on vehicles is that the will be their own elite class off of artisan. There's no really good reason for them to be an elite-elite class (I'm assuming a vehicle will include things like landspeeders and swoopers, not armored tanks).

There's really no reason at all why vehicles would fall under either architect or droid engineer. They are not semi-autonomous units and the certainly aren't buildings on wheels.

Well, many vehicles in the SW universe are semi-autonomous units. There are the "rickshaw" droids, and unless I'm mistaken, the original design sketches for the shuttles we take in-game are based on a pre-existing design of a fully automated taxi droid.

I'm not arguing that DEs should get to design vehicles in general. I also think it should be a whole new profession. Just pointing out that at the very least, vehicle engineers should be acquiring droid brains from us for some vehicles.

My take on that is that the drivers are droids, but the vehicles are not. Saying that a droid engineer builds vehicles because droids can drive them makes about as much sense as saying they should be able to build a PA hall since droids work in the kitchen.

And yes, I know that there might be semi-autonomous systems involved in a landspeeder autopilot, but it's probably much simpler than even a basic droid brain most likely (the droid brain is required not only to navigate but to also understand complex verbal instructions and handle whatever other job they have been programmed to do). I also admit there are probably vehicles where the droid is built right into the vehicle, but again, saying vehicles should be built by droid engineers because of this is about like saying that weaponsmiths should be capable of building probots since they have guns installed.

I don't know why the second paragraph didn't click when I read it. I must just be getting old.

Yeah, I think we are really on the same wavelength. I would think that some vehicles might require droids or droid brains, but still, it's like us requiring composite plates to make heavy armor. Its still a completely separate tree that just requires a few components from us.

But vehicals profession will depend on DE parts.. Advanced Motivators, Droid Brains, and Sensor suites.. not all of them i hope but maybe the advance motivators for the higher end vehicals..

on a side note i am one of those that want dependancy on parts from a weapon smith for combat droids..

Even though we have a cartel of weaponsmiths on our server. Luckily not everyone is in the cartel.. and my guild has a number of up and coming weapon smiths.

I like enter depdancy of larger items...